My whole life I’ve always hated burgers that you get from fast food/restaurants. It’s just a bland beef patty with a bunch of toppings that make it a pain to eat. These places advertise their burgers as being “100% Angus Beef!” or whatever, like that makes it appetizing… Why is this the norm? Do people just not know any better?
I learned how to make burgers from my dad and our approach is completely different. It’s all about the patty, not about the mountain of toppings. We throw onions, garlic, bell peppers, egg, worcestershire, salt and pepper (anything you want really) into a blender. Blend it all up and incorporate it directly into the beef. Then you shape your patties. This method makes the actual burger patty delicious, you could eat it as is if you wanted (which we sometimes do).
I’ve yet to meet anyone who didn’t prefer our burgers. Try it and you’ll never go back to those bland meat disks.
Yeah I was gonna say McDicks at least seasons their burgers with salt and pepper. You can see the pepper if you look at the bare patty. I don’t think seasoning the burger takes away from the “100% beef”. McDongles burgers are garbage because they’re frozen, low quality meat, cooked by a guy sweating his ass off making minimum wage with nothing to potentially make it better assuming if they wanted to.
Man I have some real hate for the good ol’ McCrongles beef burgers since I know and love how to cook my own burger. And I don’t even get the good beef, it’s just the regular stuff. And even if my patties were frozen, they still taste 85/90% of the way to fresh to me. I’m no purist or connaisseur, but darn even a fresh patty @ McHongles has to be pretty gnarly already.
Good thing they have breaded chicken!
The freezing and low quality beef are big problems. You also want a bit more fat than what a McDonald’s burger generally has.